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Quotes About Misinformation

Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
If you're going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don't misinform.
~ Marcia Clark
The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane — or put your children on a plane — if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.
~ Ry Cooder
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
~ Ryan White
Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance. As Mother says, it isn't what you don't know that will kill you, it's what you think you know that just isn't so.
~ S.M. Stirling
And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing.
~ Margaret Atwood
Why would I care about the tittle-tattle of the uninformed? Ignorant gossip.
~ Margaret Atwood
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Nobody tells me anything.
~ John Galsworthy
Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.
~ John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
~ John le Carre
The problem with information on the Internet is that it is hard to verify its authenticity." —Abraham Lincoln.     ââ'¬Â¢
~ Elizabeth Pantley
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
~ A. J. Liebling
Its easy to research on the Internet, but its also easy to get the wrong answers. Not all that you read on Google is correct.
~ Jock Zonfrillo
Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.
~ Conor Lamb
I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
~ Venus Williams
Misinformation, rumors, and gossip are making this time stressful for everyone.
~ Gary Chapman
You can get yourself pretty thoroughly lost, in time and space, if you don't know where you are or where you have just come from. How is this relevant to creative writing and writing programs? First of all, there is a certain amount of misinformation masquerading as assumed history -- as the story of creative writing in America.
~ George Garrett
One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.
~ Norman Davies
The Russians thrive on misinformation and disinformation.
~ Fiona Hill
Every time I am on air, I will receive actually quite a few messages that specifically tie me to the Chinese Communist Party - which is ludicrous because my family left on political asylum from China - or that will blame me and 'my people' for the coronavirus.
~ Leana S. Wen
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens
in a universe where both information and misinformation are constantly suspect, reviewed and drifing as they must be (constantly) by and between the two, a moment when either information or misinformation turns out to be harmless must bloom, when surrounded by the workings of desire and terror, into the offered sign of all about it, making and marking all about it innocent by contamination.
~ Samuel R. Delany